Saturday Feeling: Reimagining the idea of the family to encompass all kinds of love
New Delhi, July 18 -- It would take a philosopher or an academic to explain this more fully but the ancient Greeks had separate words and categories for different kinds of love, understanding that each relationship evokes a distinct set of feelings. But pop culture, social media and modern politics has largely flattened this into one-romantic love, and mostly between a man and a woman. What if, like those choose-your-own-ending children's story books of the '80s, a family could include anyone, and we didn't have to imagine the family unit as the one recognized by law, imagined by cinema and art, and celebrated by books? What if we could grow old with our girlfriends and dogs, all living in the same house or apartment block, independent ye...
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